Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone rings this week and somebody says cagily, "This is the Student Employment Office," hang...
Then the operator reported that Secretary Ross's phone did not answer...
Last week the offer paid off handsomely. To the city desk came an excited phone call: "A plane is about to crash at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue...
...handsome, swarthy Sirdar J. J. Singh, president of the India League of America, this was almost the end of a two-year fight. A 6-ft. Sikh from Kashmir, Singh had written thousands of letters, made hundreds of phone calls, tirelessly stalked Capitol Hill hallways. He had battled Congressional apathy, prejudice and plain ignorance. (Some legislators had thought he was talking about American Indians...
...rare organizational talent which has kept the empire running with a maximum of dispatch, a minimum of confusion. When Chairman Heyworth has some important business with U.S. Lever Bros., he does not follow the tortuous way to Cambridge via South Africa. Instead, he simply picks up the phone, calls Chuck Luckman long distance...